Paragraph 27 The Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 4-13 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 28-31 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 2 revoked by Magistrates' Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2011 Sch. 5
Sch. para. 21-27 revoked by Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) 2005 Sch.

In sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 6 of the said Schedule, for the words “claiming to be the father of an illegitimate child” there shall be substituted the words “who was not married to the mother of the child at the time of his birth and who claims to be the father of the child”.